Today, there are so many social networking websites available that many people get overwhelmed when it comes to managing 10, 20, or more social media profiles. If you have profiles on numerous of the top rated social media sites like, Facebook, Flickr, Myspace, LinkedIN, Digg, Reddit and YouTube, how do you manage all this accounts? Managing all these accounts can basically turn into a full-time job! In order to keep up with your growing Twitter following and growth of business associates and friends in all your other Social networking sites, you need to use some of the extensive selection of social networking tools available online.I have great news for all the social networking aficionados and social media professionals, many of these social networking tools devised to facilitate the arrangement and management of your online profiles are free to use or very inexpensive. To help you get you started in your pursuit for social media supremacy, I have listed 15 of the most cutting-edge and favorite social networking tools currently available online.Assembling Your Social Media Activity
Ping.fm
Ping.fm is a free service that allows you to ping a message to any of your social media profiles across the web, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Plurk and many more - It supports over 40 social networking sites. You will be able to post similar content to numerous social networking sites at one time and you won't have to post content individually. Also, Ping.fm, automatically shortens urls for easier posting to Twitter.FriendFeedFriendFeed is an easy to use application that allows you to share content with your friends from numerous social networking sites, including Twitter Facebook, Flickr, and more - Currently over 50 sites are supported. FriendFeed will also easily integrate with blogs or websites, and there are both private and public settings at your disposal. With all these features FriendFeed is very popular online.
MySocial 247
MySocial!24x7 is a compact sidebar extension for Firefox. This application is promoted as a perfect companion for FriendFeed. This extension keeps you updated about what's going on with your friends and business associates on Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and more. You can store all of your passwords in the Firefox Password Manager. This will make replying to messages or posting your own exceptionally quick and easy. The advantage of this app is that it's barely noticeable, so you can continue to browse the Internet while the MySocial 247 sidebar updates you in real-time.
Atomkeep
Atomkeep, is a small tech company and this app has throngs of functionality in one easy to use interface, that will save you time and resources on managing each social site individually. It is awesome for managing multiple accounts at various social networking sites, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and more. It's also an exceptional tool to manage multiple search websites, such as Jobster, Monster, Job.com. But keep in mind, Atomkeep is currently not accepting new members. However, the website states it will keep accepting registrations as capacity allows
ShareaholicShareaholic is Firefox add-on that allows you to easily share content on over 60 social networking sites. It is really simple to use and quick. Shareaholic has two great attributes, real-time trending and it helps clean up your browser by eliminating a jillion social media buttons. Shareaholic won the Mozilla Foundation Grand Prize Award based on user experiences, innovation, technical correctness, and use of open standards.EventBoxEvent Box allows Mac users the ability to run multiple social services at once. Eventbox is beta phase and offers support for only eight social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Reddit and more. But, I am sure more networks will be added as EventBox progresses. This interface is gorgeous and easy to use. It's based on Leopard's CoreAnimation technology, which is a versatile and spontaneous design. Also, it allows you can communicate by messaging services without disrupting your browser window.
MingglMinggl is a cutting-edge and appealing application that intermixes with IE, Firefox, and Firefox for Mac to streamline social networking across six popular services (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, LinkedIN, and Digg). According to Minggl support, more services will be added in the near future. This dynamic, application makes social networking a breeze. You can store all of your login info for each social site. Also it allows you to send status updates or tweets directly from Minggl's interface in seconds and you don't have to visit the social site directly. You can also update as many social sites as you'd like at one time. Since this is so simple to use, I amsure it will become a favorite of many social media addicts in the future.8Hands8Hands offers support for 10 social sites and is also a free desktop application. It is similar to Minggl in many ways. It also offers mobile support for staying on top of your favorite social websites while you're on-the-go. 8Hands offers really cool features to use for social networking. You can use instant real-time notifications of new messages/friend requests/videos/feeds/comments/and more, drag and drop functionality, statistics, and easy access to all of the supported social networks from one interfaceOrganizing Your Social Networking Profile
Retaggr
Retaggr is a great asset to have if you have numerous social profiles. With this application you get integration with many of the most popular social networking sites today. Retaggr is different than other social network management tools; because you are able create a digital profile card - sort of like a business card - which shows all of your social networking, blogging, and other personal information. You can use the business card so others can get in touch with you or follow you on any number of social networking sites. This is an excellent tool for merging all of your online profiles into one page. See a sample profile card here. Also, your profile card gets its own unique web address to make it effortless to maintain all of your social networking data in one spot.
DandyID
DandyID supports over 300 services, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and more. It is similar to Retaggr because it offers many tools to effortlessly manage you online identity. Also, it has a WordPress plugin available called DandyID Services, which makes integrating DandyID functionality into your WordPress blog a breeze. DandyID was created in April, 2008 and it seems to be growing in popularity very quickly, so expect to hear a lot more about it in the future.
GizaPageGizaPage is another awesome tool for arranging all of your social networking profiles into one unique url (yourname.gizapage.com). GizaPage sets up an individual tab for each social site at your particular url. For instance, you get one tab for Twitter, one for Facebook, and so on. GizaPage has a statistics package and a digital profile card similar to Retaggr's.Twitter Apps
TwitterFeed
TwitterFeed is an excellent tool for blog owners who want to promote their latest blog articles on Twitter. Rather than having to manually post to Twitter each time you update your blog, TwitterFeed automatically posts an update to your Twitter account with a link to your new blog post. TwitterFeed is a very simple Twitter apps to use, because once you're signed up and configured your automatic Twitter message you are done. Twitterfeed does everything else. It also tracks your real-time stats.
TweetDeck
TweetDeck (currently in Beta) works smoothly with Twitter, and provides you with advanced statistics, easy messaging, local trends, url shortening, Facebook integration, and more. With TweetDeck you can manage multiple Twitter accounts - for example - It is great for people that have a personal account and a separate Twitter account for their website.
Social Media Web Browsers
Flock
Flock This is one of the most dynamic free social networking tools out there right now. It is a social web browser powered by Mozilla, and it works by integrating a powerful set of tools for easy cross-social networking without having to visit each individual social media website. You can drag and drop text/images for posting at any social networking site, have real-time Facebook or Twitter chats with friends via a sidebar within the browser, post directly to your blog, manage RSS feeds, easily integrate web mail and much more. Flock promotes numerous excellent add-ons, much like Firefox, for full transformation of the look and functionality of your browser. Kinoma PlayKinoma Play is touted as the world's first mobile social media browser, Kinoma Play plugs in with all of the most popular social networking sites - such as YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, Picassa, Twitter and more - while you're on-the-go. You are also able post content to multiple social networking sites quickly and easily via any Windows Mobile phoneFriendBinder is a great tool to use to keep in contact with your friends on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, YouTube, Digg, Delicious as well as allowing you to subscribe to your friend's blogs (RSS/Atom). You can cross post to Twitter and Facebook and reply to posts with replies to Facebook and Twitter. Your friends don't need to join it imports your friends automatically. It's on the web and there is mobile browser version too.Presently, I am only familiar with Friendfeed which I started using about a month ago. I plugged in all my blogs, as well as several social networking sites. I really like it and best of all it is 100% free.
But after reaserching this information or this article, I am sure I will be using some this other applications mentioned in the very near future.
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